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      From: Jon <lavaroll@yahoo.com> 
      To: <snakevalley@utah.gov> 
      Date: Tuesday - September 29, 2009 11:53 AM 
      Subject: Don't dustbowl the Wasatch Front. 




      To whom it may concern,
      To sell out our (SLC) citizen's rights to breathe clean air for the 
      further development of a city that resides in the middle of a hot, hot 
      desert that wastes its water on lavish fountains and sprawl, sprawl, 
      sprawl out growth would be a travesty of a high order. As well as an 
      abdication of your responsibilities to protect our most precious natural 
      resource, water. Now I know that the Wasatch Front is also far from ideal 
      with our own wasteful water tendencies and out own polluting of our 
      valley's air, but what we need to do is do everything we can to improve 
      it. Selling out the rights to drain the snake valley basin at amounts that 
      are questionable at best and out right fabrication at worst in regards to 
      what is an sustainable amount would do just the opposite. Utah doesn't 
      need its own "Owen's Valley" for any reason, but especially for the 
      benefit of place not even in Utah. Please, please, please do the right 
      thing here for not only the citizens of the
      Wasatch Front and the ranchers of Snake Valley, but the right thing for 
      the desert environment. Do not let Nevada and Las Vegas take this water. 
      We the are counting on you. 

      -Jon Pinegar
      Salt Lake City resident and voter.